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Won Choi, Kyungsu Kim and Wongeon Jung
Agriculture, alongside construction and mining, is one of the three most hazardous industries, and is characterized by numerous risk factors for occupational accidents. Unlike other industries, agriculture faces significant safety concerns related to the...
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Xinyi Ren, Elizabeth Pritchard, Caryn van Vreden, Sharon Newnam, Ross Iles and Ting Xia
Background: Fatigued driving is one of the leading factors contributing to road crashes in the trucking industry. The nature of trucking, prolonged working time, and irregular sleep patterns can negatively impact drivers? health and wellbeing. However, t...
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Maasago Mercy Sepadi and Vusumuzi Nkosi
According to the best of our knowledge, there are no critical studies to date about associations between the work environment and prevalence of respiratory diseases and their symptoms among urban informal vendors in South Africa. This study followed a ri...
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Joon Woo Yoo, Jun Sung Park and Hee Jun Park
The use of virtual reality as a safety training technology is gaining attention in the construction industry. While current studies focus mainly on the development of VR-based safety training programs, studies focusing on improving its effectiveness is s...
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Martin Platten, Albert Nienhaus, Claudia Peters, Rita Cranen, Hilmar Wisplinghoff, Jan Felix Kersten, Alexander Daniel Bach and Guido Michels
Health workers (HW) are at increased risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection. In order to monitor the infection dynamic on the basis of contact with patients, HW at the St. Antonius Hospital (SAH) were tested four times in one year by PCR and serology. The cumulat...
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Patricia Gamboa, Rui Varandas, João Rodrigues, Cátia Cepeda, Cláudia Quaresma and Hugo Gamboa
Occupational disorders considerably impact workers? quality of life and organizational productivity, and even affect mortality worldwide. Such health issues are related to mental health and ergonomics risk factors. In particular, mental health may be aff...
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Perpetua Modjadji, Morongwa Bokaba, Kebogile Elizabeth Mokwena, Tshimangadzo Selina Mudau, Kotsedi Daniel Monyeki and Peter Modupi Mphekgwana
Despite the occupational nature of truckers predisposing them to cardiovascular diseases and risk factors, data is scarce on their prevalence of obesity and its association with developing hypertension (HBP) and diabetes in South Africa. Extracted from t...
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Giuseppe Campo, Luca Cegolon, Diego De Merich, Ugo Fedeli, Mauro Pellicci, William C. Heymann, Sofia Pavanello, Armando Guglielmi and Giuseppe Mastrangelo
Background: A national database of work-related injuries has been established in Italy since 2002, collecting information on the injured person, his/her work tasks, the workplace and the risk factors contributing to incident dynamics, according to a mode...
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Taofeeq D.M, Adeleke A.Q, Ajibike W.A.
Malaysia is one of the most rapidly developing countries among developing nations. The construction industry has played a major role in Malaysia?s rapid economic growth. Among the major sectors in Malaysia, the importance of the construction industry is ...
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Jose Luis Gómez-Urquiza, Luis Albendín-García, Almudena Velando-Soriano, Elena Ortega-Campos, Lucía Ramírez-Baena, María Jose Membrive-Jiménez and Nora Suleiman-Martos
Palliative care nurses are exposed to hard situations, death, and duel feelings in their daily practice. These, and other work stressors, can favor burnout development. Thus, it is important to analyze the prevalence and risk factors of burnout in pallia...
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